Tune your brain for happiness and effectiveness
A huge amount of research over the last few years has given us a better idea of what happens in the brain when we meditate, and how meditation brings us long term benefits. Meditation, for example:
- Helps to slow down aging of the brain
- Increases thickness in parts of the brain to do with memory and learning
- Reduces mind-wandering and unhappiness
- Increases the thickness of parts of the brain connected with emotional regulation
- Improves concentration
- Reduces our susceptibility to anxiety and depression
- Helps us tolerate pain
- Reduces feelings of isolation
It may seem rather staggering that one activity can lead to such a varied range of benefits. It is clear in fact that meditation has …